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Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson is a well-known private investor and editor at CNET Networks, where she is responsible for its monthly newsletter, Release 1.0, and its PC Forum, the high tech market’s leading annual executive conference.

She sold her business, EDventure Holdings, to CNET Networks in early 2004. Previously, she had co-owned EDventure and written and edited Release 1.0.

At Release 1.0 and in her private investment activities, Ms. Dyson focuses on emerging technologies, emerging companies and markets. She is also an active player in discussions and policy-making concerning the Internet.

From 1998 to 2000, Ms. Dyson was founding chairman of ICANN, an organization responsible for overseeing the Domain Name System, with a variety of government officials worldwide consulting her for advice on Internet policy issues. Additionally, she donates her time and money as a trustee to emerging organizations such as Bridges.org, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the Eurasia Foundation. Additionally, for several years in the 1990s, she was Chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

An economics graduate of Harvard and the daughter of an English physicist and Swiss mathematician, Ms. Dyson started working in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism to help in the high tech and venture capital sector and is still actively working in the USA and Europe. She resides in New York City.